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A full event room listening to a talk

Brain & Bites, and everything else at BUSINESSLABS

A lunchtime talk on the last Wednesday of the month, and now and then a launch or a celebration. Talks and events at BUSINESSLABS since 2018.

Reception 08:00–17:00, Monday to Friday

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Brain & Bites

Brain & Bites: a lunchtime talk on the last Wednesday of the month, often given by a member. Small snacks, big ideas.

The next one
To be announced

Members give many of the talks, and we are open to collaborations: if you have a talk or a topic you would like to present, tell us at reception or by email.

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Between members

Introductions

BUSINESSLABS is a tight-knit, diverse community and network, and we can help make introductions. Brain & Bites brings members together every month.

Our members have a presence on the lobby screen.

Guests talking over food at the lounge bar

From the archive

Since 2018

  • A full event room listening to a talk beside the screen, the audience seen from behind
    27.08.2026

    Brain & Bites goes global

    With the EIT's Global Outreach team: 34 people at lunchtime.

  • About fifteen people around a boardroom table, under a screen reading Innovation Exchange
    10.2025

    The Innovation Exchange

    Three workshops with more than 45 innovators, entrepreneurs and academics, before the conference on 14 November.

  • A speaker at the screen in the event room, about fifteen people listening from grey and yellow chairs
    26.02.2025

    The first Brain & Bites

    Soil, growth and funding, with 18 people at the first session.

  • A full event room listening to a talk
    04.09.2024

    The EIT Community Hub Malta opens

    The hub was based here from its launch until the end of 2026.

  • Five guests at the launch of the Malta Diversity and Inclusion Charter, in front of a screen showing the charter
    20.03.2024

    The Malta Diversity & Inclusion Charter

    Launched here by CORE Platform, under the auspices of the Minister for Inclusion and Social Wellbeing.

  • Three presenters beside a Friends of the Earth Malta banner and an upcycled dress on a mannequin
    23.03.2023

    Join The Crowd

    Zaar, Malta's crowdfunding platform, brought two of its campaigns to an evening of talks and networking: Friends of the Earth Malta, restoring the old bakery on Comino, and Sarah Grech's alterations and upcycling business.

  • 2022

    Five years of BUSINESSLABS

    The anniversary night, on film.

  • Nineteen members of Toastmasters Malta, standing and crouching in the event room by the club's banner
    2022–2026

    Toastmasters Malta

    The club met here on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of the month, for years, until it moved in the summer of 2026.

  • People with glasses at the lounge bar on a bright afternoon
    27.05.2022

    Drinks in the lounge

    On a bright Friday afternoon.

  • A panel under a screen reading Driving Innovation, seen from the back of the audience
    19.11.2019

    Driving Innovation

    A panel for Global Entrepreneurship Week Malta, from an idea to putting it to work.

  • People round the boardroom table, seen through the glass, watching a speaker on the screen
    01.11.2019

    Accelerate Now!

    Our own information sessions on EU funding for start-ups: first the PARSEC Accelerator, for Earth-observation ideas in food, energy and the environment; a second followed in January 2020.

  • People with drinks around the lounge bar in warm evening light
    31.10.2019

    Halloween at the lab

    An evening event in the lounge.

  • A group gathered round a screen in the lounge at dusk, one of them holding a sticky note
    24.10.2019

    The worst idea – ever!

    Chris Porter hosted the Interaction Design Foundation's Malta group for a design-thinking technique from Alan Dix, tried on real problems: “just do your worst!”

  • A full event room seen from the back, with a panel of four on stage between Startup Grind screens
    05.09.2019

    Startup Grind Malta

    Startup Grind, the global community for founders, brought a panel to the event room: Alex Borg (MITA Innovation Hub), Audrey Farrugia (Malta Enterprise), Carsten Franke (Vintage Content) and Nadia Pace (The Pace Company).

  • A JA Malta student company of nine, laughing and posing in the coworking area
    27.04.2019

    JA Malta's semi-finals

    Student companies pitched to the judging panels in three of our rooms. The semi-finals came back in later years.

  • The event room full, seen from the back, with a speaker at the screen
    11.06.2018

    Starting Up in Blockchain

    A seminar series: the event room full, and the lounge at the break.

The end of the line

Hold a date

The event room hosts talks, launches and celebrations, and Boardroom D opens up for thirty. Tell us the date, the numbers and what you have in mind.

Catering
The event room and boardrooms are also for hire, with catering from partner caterers.
Rather talk?
Ask us by email

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